LADIES, LITERATURE, AND 

 TEA 



IN" spite of the fact that coffee is 

 just as important a beverage as 

 tea, tea has been sipped more in 

 literature. 



Tea is certainly as much of a so- 

 cial drink as coffee, and more of a 

 domestic, for the reason that the tea- 

 cup hours are the family hours. As 

 these are the hours when the sexes 

 are thrown together, and as most of 

 the poetry and philosophy of tea- 

 drinking teem with female virtues, 

 vanities, and whimsicalities, the in- 

 ference is that, without women, tea 

 would be nothing, and without tea, 

 women would be stale, flat, and un- 



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